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made the chace their fole pleafure, and defign 

 to breed their fons to the fame occupation, it is 

 needlefs that they fliould have a better educa- 

 tion than that of their tenants, the farmers, who 

 are generally their companions ; for it requires 

 very little knowledge to enable a man to break 

 his neck in the purfuit of deer, hares, foxes, &c. 

 and in leaping over hedges, ditches and gates. 



As I have no defign to publifh any thing more 

 in Natural Hiftory, thefe eiTays being chiefly ex- 

 traéls from my great work in feven volumes in 

 quarto my petition to God (if petitions to 



God 



* Mr. Edwards's Addrefs to the Public on the Sale of 

 his Works to Mr. Robs ON. 



College of Phyjiciansy Warivick-Lane, May i, 1769. 

 To the Nobility J Gentry ^ and Curious in general, 

 JjAVING this day fold and delivered to Mr. James Rob son, book- 

 feller in New Bond-ftrcet, all the remaining copies of my Natural 

 Hiftory of Birds, and other rare and undefcribed Animals, Quadrupeds, 

 Reptiles, Fi/hes, &c. &c. in feven volumes quarto, French and Englifh, 

 printed upon a fine royal paper, containing fix hundred diftindl fubjefts, 

 engraved upon three hundred and fixty-five copper plates, from defigns 

 copied immediately from nature, and coloured under my own infpe£lion j 

 together with all my copper plates, letter-prefs, and every article in my 

 poflcffion relative to it : I have thought it a duty incumbent upon me, 

 in juftice to the public, as well as the purchafer, to declare that all 

 future publications of the faid natural hiftory are the fole right and 



